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Kayaker bashing occurs frequently here. I'm curious how many cboaters have spent a large amount of time kayaking. I'd say large is more than a quarter of the time you are in a boat.

I said open boat almost always just because there was not a OC only box to check.

Open boat mostly. Still scared of my C-1, and it really hurts my legs. I tried kayaking once or twice in about 1993.

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I'd say kayaker bashing occurs here by a select few of our thousand plus members - though many of us enjoy poking fun at kayakers (and our local kayakers enjoy poking fun at us), most of us realize that it doesn't really matter what you paddle - what matters is that you are out there on the water.

After all, Louie, has been known to insult a kayaker on occasion , paddles with a documented double bladed duckiest!

(note that some of my fondest summer paddling has been done in a duck).

Open boat till it gets real hot and the water is low then it is time for the TORRENT. Glorified inner tube. Fun and Wet.

I've been in a kayak no more than twice in 28 years. Never paddled one more than a few minutes at a time. Just didn't appeal to me at all. Your poll needs a "Only paddle open boat" check box.

Never been in a kayak and never dated a guy. Some thing I just ain't goin to try

PLg has been in a canoe twice in Mexico, the GDI is lettin him have one trip on the slocoee in the death yak by the end of the summer he will be totally single stickin

what ckingoc1 said open boat only

I have gone through phases where I almost exclusively open boated or almost exclusively C-1ed. I've kayaked some - I tried whitewater kayaking for about 4 months once but never got comfortable. I'd already been c-boating for a couple of years and felt like I was sitting too low and just couldn't get a good view or "grip" on things. I did get a roll and could even ender but just never really liked it. I do have a sea kayak and really do enjoy that in open water. However, if I could find a similar boat that allowed me to kneel, I'd be even happier...

C1 in the winter, OC1 in the warmer times. I find kneeling in cold water somewhat unpleasant. And I'm too cheap to buy a dry suit. All I have to wear in the C1 (down to 20F) are poly long johns.

Until last August - OC 99%.

Then had my third blood clot below the knee (all three a day after boating). K1 and Shredder mostly since then. (Ok a little OC2 with mega doses of asprin). Just got back from Shredding the grand canyon - what a blast!

Can't see s8it from a K1 seat, ow I know why they hit holes and rocks so much. Raised one inch with foam, not much help. Got an OK roll - still needs a lot of work. I figure it beats golf or watching sports from a couch or strokin out from a clot.

Funny about the raised seat, had a kayaker notice once and ask me "isn't that unstable" I laughed and said "its 8 inches lower than my other one". Shoulda seen the look on his face then

I've had to paddle a couple of times after each knee surgery (3x). Frigging boring.
If I want to watch whitewater sitting on my butt, it'll be on the couch watching paddling porn.
Plus I still can't figure out how to roll one of those things - that training blade keeps getting in the way.

open boat only

Back in the 70s and 80s, I was 50/50 open canoe and c-1. I was too tall for kayaks.

In 1990 I custom outfitted an old Noah kayak to fit me, and learned to roll it. But through the 90s I still paddled more difficult waters in c-1, and usually cruised easy waters in open boat.

As kneeling has gotten more difficult , I've usually been paddling open boat, but after being blown off some rivers by high wind, am thinking of using my kayaks more often.

It cracks me up when a bunch of class II/III open boaters want to bag on kayakers because other people have the good sense to do something the easy way and you're stuck in a scene out of Deliverance co/starring Louie.

The only reason it seems like there are so many dumb kayakers is that there are so many more of them. I boat almost exclusively with butt boaters. I enjoy paddling with open canoes and drove more than half way across the country to do so last month. If I hadn't wanted to get on Caney Fork while the water was still good, I would have even got back in a bathtub for Tellico Tuesday.

When I move to TN where the rivers flow with shine and the rocks are made of cotton candy, I'll probably even get another canoe!